STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2546

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2650

       H.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2650, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, THE OMBUDSMAN, AND THE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the expenses of the Legislature, the Office of the Auditor, the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.

     The Office of the Auditor, the State Ethics Commission, and the Office of the Ombudsman testified in support of this measure.  The Legislative Reference Bureau submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure appropriates sufficient funds to defray necessary expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives along with funds necessary to support the operations of the legislative service agencies and the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2650, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair